A well written article from, I assume, a supporter of the bitcoin core development team. I would like to see what the supporters of BU respond to this article and what they thing the BU developers can do to improve their software and how to convince everyone to support the hardfork.
To get it out there, I am not convinced that we need the hardfork to BU. Mine is more of a position of ignorance as I am not an expert in the technical matters of bitcoin. If someone knows thr topic deeply please post your opinions and thoughts.
The past couple of weeks were not a good time for the Bitcoin Unlimited team. It was identified that the team is struggling with several internal bugs, which created a tremendous impact on their growth. These bugs resulted in a downtime for the Bitcoin miners as well. On the other hand, it forced the developers to implement a closed source update. They have been working really hard throughout the past few weeks in order to resolve all the bugs, but they have not been able to verify and resolve all of them.
Out of the changes that were implemented to the core protocol of Bitcoin, the removal of the state corruption protection holds a prominent place. This change was heavily criticized by Greg Maxwell, one of the core developer. It is important for this feature to be present in order to ensure the proper functionality of the cryptocurrency. If it is absent, remote code execution and potential consensus splits could take place. Maxwell gave a clear explanation about it through one of his public statements.
You can go here for the full article https://www.crypto-news.net/the-probability-of-a-bitcoin-unlimited-hard-fork/
